Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

10.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

11.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

12.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

15.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

16.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

17.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

18.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

19.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

20.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

21.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

25.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

26.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

31.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

33.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

35.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

38.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

39.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

40.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

41.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

42.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

46.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.